The Guardian: G2

Thursday 15 December 2005

Comment & features p2

Andrew Clark: It is a story of death, mystery, drama and deception set in the barren wilderness of Australia's red centre. Gripping the entire country, the trial and conviction of Bradley Murdoch for shooting Peter Falconio and attempting to abduct his girlfriend, Joanne Lees, featured 85 witnesses and was the longest in the history of Australia's Northern Territory.

Comment & features p8

It took 11 years and 39 public inquiries to build, and within months it was a national joke. As the first 12-lane section of the M25 is opened, Oliver Burkeman chronicles the chequered history of 'the world's biggest car park'.

Comment & features p12

With supremacist 'Anglos' battling it out with 'bloody Lebs' on Cronulla beach, it looks like being a long, hot summer down under. But the reality is that Australia is no more racist than Britain, argues Germaine Greer.

Comment & features p14

He flunked school; at art college, he became a drunk. But then he turned to journalism - and earned himself a reputation as one of Britain's sharpest writers. AA Gill talks to Sabine Durrant about food, love and cigarettes, and his new book on the 'lumpy, louty' English.

Comment & features p21

Comment & features p23

Arts correspondent Charlotte Higgins is keeping a weblog about the ups and downs of life as a regular arts-goer - the bits that the critics don't discuss. Highlights from the blog - and readers' responses - will be printed here every Thursday.

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